Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adj] for him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith says Shaunagh has been good for him . |
| 2 | George admits freely that life has been fortunate for him . |
| 3 | I mean be sorry for him . |
| 4 | It would have been easy for him to take it off . |
| 5 | ‘ It would have been possible for him , I think . |
| 6 | He was twenty — well this June — and he still had n't walked out with a girlfriend , and yet his mother was moving in very exalted circles , where it should have been possible for him to meet the pick of the debutantes . |
| 7 | Obviously Wordsworth 's performance in his studies at school must have been outstanding for him to have started off at Cambridge with such a lead , and it is hardly surprising that in the college examination in 1787 he was placed in the first class . |
| 8 | ‘ That must have been awful for him because he loves his food . |
| 9 | I 'm not saying I 'd have been good for him or him for me , but it did provide a link in a chain that was to tie me to glory in the Open . |
| 10 | This is Tuesday and it would have been appropriate for him to have raised this matter then . |
| 11 | It would have been nice for him to wind things up by breaking the back of Britain 's opposition to integration . |
| 12 | It must have been terrible for him . |
| 13 | His face was so unguarded that if she had not loved him as much she would have been afraid for him . |
| 14 | It must have been lonely for him . |
| 15 | How could I not have been happy for him ? |
| 16 | He had rightly judged that it would have been unwise for him to associate himself with the movement of the Earl of Lancaster or with Rent 's conspiracy . |
| 17 | ‘ It would have been difficult for him on his own in a strange country on the other side of the world . |
| 18 | If I had been counting , or had been more familiar with the aircraft or the sequence , I might have been ready for him . |
| 19 | If he had spoken of forgiving , or pitying , or even loving , she would have been ready for him , but to be needed was something she had not looked for . |
| 20 | But , generally , Ollie seemed to have been good for him and brought his character out a lot . |
| 21 | About twice a day , she 'd ask herself whether this move had been right for him . |
| 22 | She had been sorry for him , and he had cheated her ! |
| 23 | Anyway , Isobel had been keen for him to tell both his parents , and her advice had been sound all through . |
| 24 | By a notice of appeal dated 20 July 1992 the Official Solicitor appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that since the judge had found as facts that ( a ) T. had been able properly and fully to form a balanced judgment and had not been acting under undue influence but had been acting voluntarily , and ( b ) her several expressions withholding consent were valid refusals which bound the hospital , ( 1 ) he had erred in finding himself entitled to make the declaration ; ( 2 ) it had been wrong for him to assess T. 's subsequent intentions and to make assumptions as to whether she would have qualified or changed her refusal in the later circumstances ; and ( 3 ) he had erred in finding that ( a ) there was no evidence that T. had wished to refuse a blood transfusion even though it was at risk to her life , ( b ) lack of understanding of the risks involved justified acting against her expressed refusal , ( c ) her withholding of consent did not embrace the emergency which had arisen and took no account of changed circumstances , ( d ) her expressed refusals did not evince a settled intention to persist in her refusal even if injurious to her health when her best interests required a transfusion ; and ( e ) he was not satisfied that her refusal was continuing . |
| 25 | His great oak coffin that had been ready for him for years was set up like a cupboard at the head of the bier , fresh lined with red and gold damask , its silver handles polished bright . |
| 26 | ‘ My husband has put a lot of work into Maastricht and the last six months have been awful for him , ’ she said . |
| 27 | And the second time round it 's been perfect for him because he bought from Karen 's house the Hoover and the saucepans and everything that was his . |